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Short Notes and Queries. 



28 



First noted 

 1876. 



Average date 

 of 10 years. 



Hirundo urhica (house martin) 



Also seen at Silkstone, near their 

 old nests 

 Ruticilla phoenicimis (Redstart) 

 Turdus torquaUis (ring ousel) 



Forty seen near Ringing low moors, just 

 arrived, previous to breaking-uj) 

 for pairing. 

 Sylvia atricapilla (black-cap warbler) 

 Sylvia trochilus (willow warbler) 

 Praiincola ruhetra (whin-chat) 



Seen at Horbury April 7th (very exceptional). 

 Sylvia hortensis (garden warbler) 



Recorded by Mr. Talbot April 22nd. 

 Sylvia sibilatrix (wood warbler) 



Noted by Mr. Talbot April 22nd. 

 Sylvia cmerea (white-throat) ... 

 Sylvia cumica (lesser white-throat) . . . 

 Crex pratensis (land rail) 

 Salicaria phragmitis (sedge warbler) 

 Avicula locustella (grasshopper warbler) 

 Totanus hypoleucos (sand piper) 

 Philomela luscinia (nightingale) 



Four or five pairs about Barnsley. 

 Muscicapa grisola (spotted fly-catcher) 

 Cypselus apus (swift) ... 



It will be seen how irregular the arrivals have been ; after the first fine 

 week in April, in the period of frost and snow that followed, we scarcely 

 noted the Spring migrants, except the cases named. The main bodies 

 came afterwards, from Easter until early May. — T. Lister, Barnsley. 



April 



9 



April 



14. 





16 







55 





55 



14. 



5) 



15 







55 



16 



55 



22. 



J> 



16 



55 



10. 



55 



18 



55 



20. 



May 



6 



May 



o. 



55 



o 



April 



oU. 



April 



23 



55 



25. 



^5 





IVTo-lT 



iviay 





55 





A 'n'nl 



27 



55 



24 



55 



24. 



55 



24 



55 



30. 





26 







May 



2 



55 



29. 



>5 



9 



May 



14. 



55 



13 



55 



8. 



Nesting op the Cole Tit, &c. — On looking through Mr. Talbot's 

 articles on the Birds of Wakefield," I find he states that the Cole 

 titmouse " arrives here from the north in October, and leaves us in 

 March. " That we receive an immigration of Cole tits from the north, in 

 auttimn, I do not doubt, but that a few remain with us to breed I can 

 testify from personal observation. Several years ago (I do not know the 

 particular year, but it was Whitsuntide) my brother took me to a nest 

 containing young, which was built in a hole in a wall constructed for the 

 purpose of carrying a bridge over a stream at Goit Stock. I also saw a 

 pair of old birds whilst staying at Scugdale, near Stockton-upon-Tees, in 

 July, 1862, which no doubt had either bred or were breeding in the 

 locality. Mr. Marson, of Sandal, mentions in the June number of the 

 Naturalist, a blackbird beginning to build its nest so early as the first 

 week in March, this year. Notwithstanding the cold weather which we 

 had last February, it was not sufficient to deter a pair of song thrushes 

 from commencing building operations in a garden in this village. I did 

 not hear of the nest until the 26th, on which date it had laid its third 

 egg.— E. P, P. Buttbrfield, Wilsden, Bradford, August 15th, 1876. 



